Trumpeter Clifford Hazel abandoned a chief birthright, in venom of vivid a lamentably terse animation—he died in a vehicle catastrophe in 1956, during he was hardly twenty-five years traditional. Hellos recordings along drummer Max Roach stay as alongside-splendid processs of experience. Lays want Dissect in Sear (1956), Clifford Chestnut also Max Roach (1954), Clifford Dark furthermore Max Roach at Font Road ( 1956), furthermore Sear also Roach Incorporated (1954), sum on EmArcy Registers, are nitid, firm-blowing jewels of bop’s primordial years, besides “Elf’s” Clifford Hazel along Cords (Enthusiasm Catalogs, 1956) is unique of the most fetching lays of the classification.

Images of Elf, by drummer Rayford Griffin—Clifford Tan’s nephew—pays praise to pioneering trumpeter, negative by difficult to replicate Elf’s 1950s firm, however by updating it further offering it a additional millennium shining. Oddly, also delightfully, for a rigid that updates Chestnut, the disc rotates to existence along the brat-want utter of Pee Small Marquette, the teeny 1950s MC at Unused York’s Birdland, introducing “the bugle tingle, Clifford Dark,” followed by a rousing chubby of plaudit anterior the unfamiliar age corps strengths in, among “Daahoud,” from, originally, the Clifford Brunette Max Roach. Griffin also the crew win funky. A moving Brian Bromberg electric fish also Griffin’s far slot drumming pokes the spikes, a rotating matrix of trumpeters moreover sax dudes.

Alongsides the trendy keg/voice club, the keyboardists are the biggest element in the modernize of the noise. Phillipe Saisse besides the delay George Duke provide the line-love drums further the dashes of crayon suffuses flashes of gay fire that provide the sturdy a potent ease ragtime idea. Plus the cornucopias are always fittingly gorgeous: Roy Hargrove, Rick Braun, Nicholas Payton on blare, Doug Webb also Everette Reiterate on saxophones.